The celebs will be in town Jan. 31- Feb. 3 and they’ll spend two days competing in a variety of ski races and competitions at Sunshine Village with plenty of viewing areas for the public.

If you want to rub elbows with the celebs, grab your $500 per person tickets for the Saturday night gala by calling 403-762-1710. Or during the day on Friday and Saturday, head to Sunshine Village to watch the celebs compete in ski challenges and obstacle courses.

More than 600 million people use Skype to make voice and video calls and send text and audio messages, and there are indications that governments can gain access to these private communications.

Journalists and privacy advocates are urging the company's owner Microsoft to disclose details about Skype user data and possible government efforts to access it, BBC reports.

Reporters Without Borders, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and 43 other campaign groups published a letter Thursday saying the tech giant has been "persistently unclear and confusing" about the confidentiality of Skype conversations.

In May 2011 Microsoft took control of Skype and subsequently expanded its cooperation with U.S. authorities to make online chats and user information more available to police, the Washington Post has previously reported, citing industry and government officials familiar with the changes.

Two years prior Microsoft had already applied to patent technology called “Legal Intercept," which would allow the company to secretly intercept, monitor, and record Skype calls, Computer World has reported.

In May of last year CNET reported that the FBI drafted an amendment to U.S. law that would require Microsoft and other providers to create surveillance backdoors in their products.

The potential spying reportedly expands beyond the boarders of the U.S., as well.

German blog netzpolitik.org recently revealed what it said was a leaked document from Germany's government stating that its law enforcement was working on surveillance software to allow it to track Skype and other data communications.

The coalition that wrote the letter Thursday is asking for the number of requests each government has made and the percentage the firm complies with. It also wants to know Skype user information Microsoft keeps and the firm's analysis on the current ability of third parties to intercept conversations.

Well, it looks like the gang's all here. Rumors ran rampant that Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" would be bringing back a number of the series' more well-known characters, with Hugh Jackman confirmed to appear alongside Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan. But Bryan Singer has confirmed via Twitter that, not only are they looking to bring back as many cast members as possible from the original trilogy, but that Brett Ratner's lambasted "X-Men: The Last Stand" is definitely canon.

"Very excited to welcome #annapaquin, @ellenpage & @shawnrashmore to #XMen #DaysOfFuturePast - thank you, @BrettRatner for letting them live!" he tweeted. Anna Paquin and Shawn Ashmore are veterans of the series, having played lovers Rogue and Iceman through the first three movies. And while many don't remember this, before earning an Oscar nomination for "Juno," Ellen Page played fan favorite Kitty Pryde in Ratner's third entry, participating in a heavily underwritten love triangle with the aforementioned two mutants.

While 'Days Of Future Past' is considered a direct sequel to "X-Men: First Class," there's the possibility it will also serve as an immediate follow-up to 'The Last Stand.' which left the X-Men roster with Wolverine (Jackman, obviously), Kitty, Beast (Kelsey Grammer), Storm (Halle Berry), Iceman and Colossus (Daniel Cudmore). Certainly, the time jumping narrative from the comics could make it possible, and Singer has already talked about "conectivity" between the movies. Could there be more X-Men rejoining the crew? Will Paquin, Ashmore and Page only appear in cameo form or will their roles be more substantial?

Whatever the case, this film is about to get crowded, with the assumption the focus will remain on Michael Fassbender's Magneto, James McAvoy's Professor X, Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique and all the other young 'First Class' characters you'll pretend to remember. "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" will be released on July 18, 2014.

1.) This B list celebrity recently got engaged. She hated the ring though. Had her boyfriend return it and she is having one designed that she will pay for and say was designed by her boyfriend. Jeweler has been picked and will be mentioned in return for a substantial discount. Apparently the boyfriend has been really hurt by all of this.

My guess: Kourtney Kardashian

2.) You would think that after being with someone who has been sober for so long that this A list celebrity would have kicked her coke habit. She did for awhile. In the past year though she is right back to snorting coke as much as she can. She limits herself to only nights she goes out, which, considering is almost every night is a lot. No word on whether her current boyfriend is partaking since she tends to go to the bathroom and do it solo.

My guess: is as good as yours, drawing a blank.

3.) This former A list all movie actress and now trying to hang on to B- is taking a break from her young boyfriend and has returned to her old standby. A female lover. Well, lover in the sense that she has the woman take care of her, but never returns the favor. They have been on and off for a decade. When she is promoting movies, she prefers her female friend.

My guess: Sharon Stone

4.) This blind item is so easy, it is barely blind. This newly announced baby mama of an A list all movie actor has a past that no one is talking about. Although she is a model she has also earned money being a topless blackjack dealer for bachelor parties and always making sure the bachelor has a good time.

My guess: Obviously Jeremy Renner

5.) For years this A list all movie actress has been providing an allowance to her C list actor ex. Recently though she cut him off and now he can barely pay his monthly bills. He never saved anything because he always had his ex as a bank. Things have got so bad that he is trying desperately to make a deal with a car company for an endorsement so he can keep his current car.

We reported that acclaimed Japanese director Nagisa Ôshima died. The iconoclastic filmmaker pursued a path that was often considered taboo, explicit, and deviant — especially when compared to the traditionalists working alongside him throughout his career. Ôshima is probably best remembered for his 1976 historical drama, In the Realm of the Senses, which featured scenes of unsimulated sex between actors. Controversy and censorship followed, but it wasn’t his only dalliance with eroticism, and Ôshima continued to reveal the forbidden in his films, while shedding light on political and cultural grievances. Sexy is entirely subjective, and we wanted to remember other oft-forgotten foreign films that explored the provocative and erotic.

Betty BlueDespite its reputation as a quintessential French film and several Best Foreign Language Film award nominations in the States, this 1986 tale about an unstable young woman and her handyman lover is sometimes forgotten. Béatrice Dalle’s character embodies the steamy, dizzying intensity of amour fou.

Come UndoneA naturalistic, passionate, and moving portrait of sexual awakening amongst the sand dunes of Brittany about two young men who contend with difficult family drama during their summer of love.

Room in RomeA Sapphic remake of the better known 2005 Chilean film En la cama, Room in Rome takes place between the walls of a hotel suite where a heady sexual relationship between two women unfolds into a complex and intimate baring of the soul — all tastefully and gorgeously framed and captured.

An Affair of Love“It is about the desiring itself, not about what they desire. That makes it more intriguing than if we knew their secret — and sexier,” Roger Ebert wrote of the 1999 French film about an older woman and a younger man who meet for a casual fling and find more. Director Frédéric Fonteyne examines their evolving relationship with honesty.

Love on a PillowWe could list a number of films starring Brigitte Bardot, but Love on a Pillow — directed by the French star’s former husband, Roger Vadim, after the couple divorced — is often cited as one of her best acted movies. And God Created Woman secured Bardot’s status as a film sex kitten, but this lesser watched 1962 movie allowed her to explore a deeper relationship on screen — in this case, a dysfunctional one. BB is undoubtedly the sexiest part of the movie.

In a move that can only be described with expletives or Yiddish, it was announced Thursday that "Star Trek Into Darkness" filmmaker J. J. Abrams will be directing the next installment of Star Wars.

After Jedi-mindtricking his way into creative control over the two most prized properies in science-fiction, Abrams is now strutting across the universe, swinging his Death Star-sized chutzpah from galaxy to galaxy.

However massive the achievement, the franchise-gobbling filmmaker still has to face the loyally fixed and ready to fight fan bases as they attempt to adjust to the unfathomable force disturbances and countless continuum rifts caused by this development.

The chaos plays out online as competing convention culture and cherished legacies smash into each other like angry asteroids. It's Starfleet on Skywalker, Empire against Enterprise and no shortage of phaser fire for the newest captain of the proverbial ship.

Space separatists, be warned. Nothing brings people together like a common enemy.

On behalf of all Star Wars fans, we extend the hand of friendship to Star Trek fans everywhere. The Force choking hand of friendship.

Michael C. Hall, Daniel Radcliffe and cast being super charming at the Q & A for premiere of Kill Your Darlings at Sundance. Grrr, I wish they'd talk to Ben Foster more because he is so funny and adorable.

Someone snapped a single shot during the screening...

Canadian Interview Dan Radcliffe talking about Horns, The F Word and Harry Potter

Dan will be appearing on Bad Teeth

Video of the little prince in Park City

I thought this was cute. Two girls drove around stalking Daniel while filming Horns carrying a cardboard cut-out of Ron Weasley and he asked them over and signed autographs. It's the first video footage I've seen of him in full Horns costume.(Skip to 7:20)

One Direction has now added another award to a growing collection of accolades: On January 26, 2013, One Direction won the prize for International Group or Duo of the Year at the NRJ Music Awards, held in Cannes, France.The other nominees in the category were Coldplay, Carly Rae Jepsen & Owl City, and Maroon 5. The awards are voted on by the public.

The five members of One Direction (Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson) attended the ceremony. In an acceptance speech, Styles said, "I have to say massive thank you to our French fans. We wouldn't be here without you. Our French record label [is] absolutely amazing. We don't speak French. Obviously, we weren't born here. To be welcomed in this country is amazing, so thank you so much."

One Direction also performed "Kiss You" on the awards show.

A few of the members of One Direction later went on Twitter to post additional messages of thanks:

One Direction at the 2013 NRJ Music AwardsStyles tweeted: "Thank you so much to @NRJhitmusiconly and our fans for the Award!! See you later."

Horan tweeted: "Thank you so much guys! For voting for us! Bed international group ! Thank you so much ! NRJ music awards."

One Direction came in third place on "The X Factor" U.K. in 2010 and has since gone on to become the biggest global act to emerge from "The X Factor." The group has had No. 1 hits and sold-out tours in several countries.

One Direction's numerous awards include prizes from the 2012 Brit Awards, the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, the 2012 Teen Choice Awards, the 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards, the 2012 Bambi Awards, and the 2013 People's Choice Awards.

After one of the most trying (and public) years of her life, Liberty Ross is ready to liberate herself from husband Rupert Sanders. As revealed on Friday Jan. 25, the British model, 34, filed for divorce from the director, 41, after ten years of marriage and two kids (Skyla, 7, and Tennyson, 5). The move (Ross asks for joint custody of the kids, spousal support and attorney's fees) isn't exactly shocking: Despite several amicable meet ups with the kids, the twosome had appeared to be mostly estranged ever since Sanders was caught (in exclusive Us Weekly photos) having a midsummer fling with Kristen Stewart, the 22-year-old star of his Hollywood blockbuster Snow White and the Huntsman.

"This was a long time coming," one source tells Us Weekly, explaining that, in the aftermath of the shocking tryst, Sanders "did want to try to repair the relationship and didn't want a divorce."

Ross, who picked up her life and career in London to move with her husband to Hollywood a couple years ago, "was more than a little upset," adds a second insider. "They gave it a shot for the kids, [but] she was just so angry . . .she's the kind of person who wouldn't really ever get over it."

The stunning brunette, who walked in Alexander Wang's NYC Fashion Show last fall, hinted at changes to come in a confessional video series for the designer. "[This year was] the end of some things and the beginning of something else," she continued. "Beginnings and endings are always really exciting."

By contrast, in the wake of her betrayal (and a very public apology) Stewart mended things with her longtime love Robert Pattinson; although the British hunk is now filming in Australia, the Twilight costars were most recently spotted together at a private Golden Globes afterparty in Hollywood Jan. 13.

Amy Adams gets in some retail therapy with a pal while out and about on Thursday (January 24) in Los Angeles.

The 38-year-old actress wore her workout attire for the shopping trip!

“When I did Catch Me If You Can, in 2002, I had a really big crush on Leonardo DiCaprio,” Amy recently told W Magazine. “I had fixated on him in Growing Pains and in Titanic. I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, if I ever work with Leo, it will be wonderful.’ And then, there I was, with pigtails—looking not at all like Gisele [Bundchen], whom he was dating at the time. I figured my chances were pretty slim, so I just focused on the work.”

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley may be gorgeous but she is very much taken, not that Jason Statham's girlfriend's relationship status seemed to bother Leonardo DiCaprio who apparently was spotted trying to chat up the stunning model!

An insider at Harvey Weinstein's Golden Globes after party has told Now Magazine that ladies man Leo tried to make a move for model Rosie. Hardman Jason, who has been dating Rosie for almost three years, soon shut down the flirting though:

"After some small talk, Leo introduced Rosie to his posse and poured her a glass of bubbly. She seemed interested, but unaware that Leo was smitten," the source alleges.

"When Jason spotted his gal with Leo, he summoned her to his side and didn't let her out of his sight for the rest of the evening."

Undeterred, confirmed bachelor Leo apparently just moved onto to another hot girl to continue his flirting.

Taking things in his stride, Leo soon made a play for another hot girl.

After filming three back to back films, Leo recently announced he was looking forward to taking a break from work. It seems like the actor has gotten his holiday off to a great start as he's been spotted holidaying with a bikini-clad Naomi Campbell this week.

According to First Coast News, the 'Django Unchained' star started his break on board a yacht in Miami with the supermodel, after saying that he was completely drained after making three movies in two years. Leonardo said: “I’m a little bit drained. I am now going to take a long, long break,” The Sun reports.

Beyonce is set to perform at the halftime show of next week’s Super Bowl, and she seems more focused on preparing for the big game than on the lip-synching hubbub after Monday’s Presidential Inauguration.

The superstar has uploaded photos of her Super Bowl rehearsal process to Tumblr and Instagram.

Frank Ocean to Perform at New Orleans Jazz Festival:Frank Ocean has been tapped to perform at this years New Orleans Jazz Festival taking place April 26 to May 5, 2013. The musical component of the festival takes place on two weekends with Frank Ocean scheduled to perform on Saturday May 4th. Other acts included John Mayer, the Black Keys, Patti Smith, Band of Horses, Fleetwood Mac and more

Frank Ocean Tops The Village Voice's Albums List For 2012:Frank Ocean can add another award to the pile.

The Village Voice late Tuesday released the results of its annual Pazz & Jop critics poll, which asked approximately 500 music writers for their favorite albums and singles of 2012. Ocean's "Channel Orange" finished atop the album list, as it did recently on tallies from Entertainment Weekly and The Times, among many others.

"He is the great equalizer," wrote Eric Sundermann in an accompanying essay on the Los Angeles soul singer. "Because whether you consider yourself a fan of rap, indie rock, pop, metal or polka, you were thinkin' about Ocean."

Next month he's up for six Grammy Awards, including the new artist and album of the year prizes. And Wednesday morning Ocean was among the nominees announced for the GLAAD Media Awards, which "recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives," according to the organization.

Frank Ocean On The Village Voice's Year End List:Albums:1. Channel Orange

Child fashion prodigy and Rookie magazine publisher Tavi Gevinson is now the youngest guest to appear on "The Colbert Report."

The 16-year-old blogger and fashion industry darling paid a visit to Stephen Colbert to explain how she manages high school English homework while running a magazine and, more importantly, to give Colbert a makeover.

The segment was not short on charm, with Colbert offering to write a guest piece for Rookie. "I was thinking of writing a column from the point of view of a 48-year-old dad," says Colbert. "It's called 'You're Not Wearing That.'"

Tavi shared her own expertise by taking Stephen through a range of proposed makeover options, including the "Tortured Artist," a shirtless look that got plenty of hoots and hollers from the live audience.

Another look had the host channeling Harry Styles. "There were some really great photos of the members of One Direction modeling puppies," says Gevinson. "So I feel like if you carried around a puppy and had the boy band hair, you would be like, set."

The final look Tavi suggests is the "Cool Dad." While Colbert points out "those words generally don't go together," Tavi is quick to make him blush by setting the record straight. "Your show is very like 'Cool Dad,'" she says. "I watched it with my dad last night and he's a cool dad. Other capital-c capital-d 'Cool Dads' like your cool dad show."

For the show closing, Colbert showed just how cool of a dad he is, rocking tight green skinny jeans with a boy band wig, and holding -- what else? -- a puppy. Watch the makeover segment and show close in the video clips below. Video at the source.

LiLo’s latest criminal case has been transferred to an old courtroom foe, Judge Stephanie Sautner, according to new reports.

Judge Sautner oversaw the troubled starlet’s probation after her jewelry theft case last year, in which Sautner sentenced Lohan to community service and one year to complete the terms.

She also gave the “Mean Girls” actress a warning that she could face up to 245 days in jail if she violated her probation again.

“The only thing you have to do is follow all laws…. Live your life in a more mature way, stop the nightclubbing and focus on your work. I don’t expect to see you again. You know what you have to do,” she said.

We know how that turned out.

Since then Lohan has been in a car crash on the Pacific Coast Highway, been treated by paramedics in her hotel room a week after the crash, was accused of hitting a man with her car outside of a New York City nightclub in September, got into an argument with her mother that prompted a 911 call in October and got arrested after an alleged club punch-up with a psychic in November.

Lohan's also dealing with financial woes including hundreds of thousands of dollars owed to Uncle Sam and undisclosed sums to her legal team.

E! News reports Lohan will come face-to-face with Sautner once again on Jan. 30, when she appears for a pre-trial hearing for her alleged lying-to-cops case following her car crash on the Pacific Coast Highway. Her trial date is set for Feb. 27.

In recent years, Lohan has been sentenced to the Los Angeles-area women's jail five times, AP reports. Most of her stays have been short due to overcrowding, and she was allowed to serve 35 days on house arrest in 2011.